Market for first-time buyers
Creating more room for first-time buyers
More than 200,000 first-time buyers are looking for a chance to enter the housing market, although NVM (the Dutch estate agents' association) says that the number of houses on the market has reached record height. However, the average newly-built house costs approximately €250,000, which is way above the budgets of first-time buyers.
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Houses for the elderly
Allowing elderly people to live independently for longer
There has been an explosive rise in the number of elderly people. Recent estimates indicate a rise from 3.5 million in 2000 up to more than 6 million by the year 2030. This aging population poses new challenges for the housing market. Read more >>
Infill development
Providing new impulses
Developers are responding increasingly well to the consumers' demands regarding how they would like to live. The surroundings are included in this process as much as possible. Nevertheless, a lot of houses are still being built outside the towns, as part of large-scale housing projects. Read more>>
Restructuring
Breaking the downward spiral
When residential areas are facing depopulation and becoming impoverished, there is more going on than mere deferral of maintenance. The atmosphere has been thoroughly ruined and neither housing nor facilities meet the requirements of today. Read more>>
